If you set aside the privacy issues for a moment, these days when you say “Google”, you mean “search”. If it’s online, Google will find it. It even managed to bring those queries into 3D space with Google Earth and Google Maps, allowing users to look for locations and plan out those trips with relative [...]
We last heard of the Novint Falcon back in June. It was supposed to introduce the idea of 3D Touch, allowing users to actually feel an object onscreen. We’re not talking about the simple rumble that force feedback is usually associated with, folks. This is supposed to simulate how holding or touching an actual object [...]
If you’re looking for an alternative to the mouse or if you simply want to try a new experience to avoid the humdrum of PC usage, the Space Navigator might be what you’re looking for. How does it work? Read on. Pressure sensing technology allows the controller cap to become a virtual extension of you. [...]
It doesn’t have a very creative name, but it does get the message across. Introducing Little PCs, a line of small form factor PCs from Stealth Computer Corporation. The Intel-powered machines are available in several modes and are also customizable. Here’s a summary of their most advanced unit: Powerful Duo Core Processors Fits in the [...]
Imagine taking a pen that isn’t a pen, then drawing lines that you can’t see, to make furniture that isn’t there. Well, at least not yet. I know it all sounds confusing, but that’s the concept behind this particular Swedish idea, which brings consumers to the very front of the design process and lets them [...]
“Haptic” is a word I learned just today, catching a glimpse of it as I was scanning over my RSS feed looking for something interesting. It means pertaining to the sense of touch, and when applied gaming peripherals it usually refers to force feedback. The Novint Falcon Haptics Controller seeks to go beyond the “rumble” [...]
Widescreen monitors anyone? NEC displayed a brand new 26 inch NEC 2690WXi wide-angle monitor at a convention in Europe. “The unit purportedly offers up 400 cd/m2 brightness, 178-degree viewing angles, 800:1 contrast ratio, seven-millisecond response time, VGA / DVI inputs, and support for wall mounting as well.” I don’t know about you, but this thing [...]
A company called IO2 Technology has created a new kind of projection display that literally makes video images look like they are suspended in air much like a hologram. The projection unit can be hidden in furniture, and the images are transposed on an invisible plane of transformed air. You can stick your hand right [...]
